IBM experts to help Buffalo boost youth employment
The neighborhoods in Buffalo where the most young people are unemployed typically also host the city’s biggest employers. To connect young people ages 16 to 24 with jobs that could be literally right...
View ArticleSenate Republicans want to exclude WNY from casino expansion
ALBANY – Senate Republicans want to add more casinos in New York State, but not in Western New York.The GOP’s casino expansion plan protects the Seneca Nation of Indians’ three casino investments in...
View ArticleMurdered West Seneca woman’s son turns himself in
A man who was being sought in connection with his mother’s murder turned himself in to West Seneca police Tuesday afternoon and was jailed after being arraigned.Primitivo Cruz, 45, was ordered held...
View ArticleA half-century later, ‘Century Girl’ reprises role on historic...
Frank Sinatra called her “doll” and mesmerized her with his blue eyes. President Harry Truman cheerfully asked her to join him and his wife, Bess, for breakfast. But Ernest Hemingway was uninterested...
View ArticleSix area hospitals get a D in patient safety report card
Six of 13 Western New York hospitals in a new report card on patient safety got a grade of only D for preventing medication errors, infections and other serious problems.Six hospitals here received C...
View ArticleBuffalo fans follow BPO to Carnegie Hall tonight
NEW YORK – Gliere’s Symphony No. 3, which the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will be tackling tonight at Carnegie Hall, is big. That’s one reason the orchestra was accepted for Carnegie Hall’s...
View ArticleThree incumbents, three newcomers win School Board seats
Three incumbents will return to the Buffalo Board of Education, and three new faces will join them, city voters determined Tuesday.Board President Mary Ruth Kapsiak will retain her seat for another...
View ArticleTown of Lockport meth lab busted
A 27-year-old Town of Lockport man was arrested and a suspected meth lab in a Ruhlman Road home in the township was busted about 8 a.m. Friday by the Niagara County Drug Task Force and state...
View ArticleMan charged with trying to kill girl loses lawyer
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man charged with the attempted murder of a 7-year-old girl on New Year’s Eve lost his attorney Friday because of a conflict of interest.Assistant Public Defender Michele G....
View ArticleTwo men sentenced on cocaine charges in Niagara
LOCKPORT – The charge was the same but the sentences differed in two drug cases before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Friday.Kevin I. Kelly, 19, of John Street, Lockport, went to state...
View ArticleSLA closes University Heights bar for sale of alcohol to minors
Mojo’s, a popular Main Street bar near the University at Buffalo’s South Campus was shut down Friday by the State Liquor Authority for alleged sales of alcohol to minors.Dennis Rosen, chair of the...
View ArticleSky-high workers’ comp claims dominate Niagara board meeting
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Workers’ compensation claims for the Niagara Active Hose Volunteer Fire Company have hit more than $312,000 a year, 10 times greater than the average cost of claims by other...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets 10-year federal prison term for cocaine trafficking
Ramone Perry, 32, of Buffalo, on Friday was ordered by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to serve 10 years in federal prison and then face eight years of post-release supervision on a conviction...
View ArticleCity man arrested with 18 pounds of pot in his car
A 30-year-old Buffalo man was arrested Friday on drug charges after about 18 pounds of marijuana valued at $40,000 were seized from his car.Andrew Powell, who lists a Gilbert Street address, was...
View ArticleLackawanna mayor’s budget would lower tax rates
Lackawanna Mayor Geoffrey M. Szymanski is proposing a $24.48 million budget for 2013-14 that would lower the tax rate 14 percent for businesses and by less than 1 percent for homeowners.The plan would...
View ArticlePower proceeds to fund Launch NY competition
Launch NY’s plans to help local technology firms and other startups is expected to be awarded a game-changing $5.4 million by the Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board on Monday.Launch NY...
View ArticleSupervisor, deputy end standoff in Elma
Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy Timothy J. Higgins’ exile from the sheriff’s substation in Elma is over.Higgins, a 27-year veteran of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, will return to the substation in...
View ArticleLawsuit against Buffalo casino dismissed
The Seneca Nation’s plans for a bigger, more elaborate casino in downtown Buffalo got the legal go-ahead Friday when a federal judge dismissed the last of three lawsuits seeking to block the...
View ArticleBills notebook: Marrone happy with first look at rookies
Imagine the first day of school.That’s what Friday amounted to for the 33 players in attendance at the Buffalo Bills’ rookie minicamp. “Our goal as coaches was to come out here and get with these...
View ArticleManuel shows Bills what he can do
Rookie quarterback EJ Manuel passed the eyeball test in his first practice with the Buffalo Bills Friday.The 6-foot-5, 237-pounder from Florida State showed off his big arm and a nearly effortless...
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